Several weeks ago I had a conversation with a friend (?) of Gornahoor during which the topic of a “movement” came up, by which he meant a counter-revolutionary or rightist movement. I had read a post by an alleged leader of said movement that criticized egalitarianism. Following up on that … Continue reading
Philosophy and the Noble Life
Because the same One, who is begotten and born of God the Father, without ceasing in eternity, is born today, within time, in human nature, we make a holiday to celebrate it. Saint Augustine says that this birth is always happening. And yet, if it does not occur in me, how could it help me? Everything depends on that. ~ Meister Eckhart Continue reading
Meditation on the Incarnation
The Logos raised the human up to God, once and for all. Christ, as the second Adam, restored the possibility of the Primordial state to man. Continue reading
The Healing Power of the Mind
The nature of reality: we create it ourselves
Faith: you can accomplish anything with it Continue reading
Evola Viewed from the Right: Three political principles
This is part VII of an ongoing review of Julius Evola‘s Fascism viewed from the right, published by Arktos Media. Fascism, as the conscious agent of the state, next had to confront the parliamentary system that it had inherited. Evola put it this way (in Chapter VIII): The parliamentary system … Continue reading
The Glass Bead Game
The individuality descends consciously and of his own free will to birth, into an environment where he is wanted and awaited … Incarnation-birth presupposes conscious agreement between the will of the individuality above and the receiving will below. Continue reading
New Thought and Tradition
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better ~ Emile Coué Before providing translations of Julius Evola’s essays on the New Thought movement in Europe and the ideas of Emile Coué, I want to offer some personal observations. I will also supplement Evola’s material with the comparable … Continue reading
The Purification of the Breath
The way of the spirit is such that it does not exist for those who do not want to follow the path. ~ Julius Evola This is the concluding section of Evola’s essay on the metaphysics of purity. Once again, he expresses Eastern doctrines not only in Western terms, but … Continue reading
The Perennial Wisdom
While Sanatana and Perennis are equivalent, Guenon claims that Philosophia is not exactly the same as dharma. The latter term refers to doctrine that is not understood as a theory, but “as a knowledge which must be effectively realized” and its applications extend to all modalities of human life, without exception. Continue reading
The Seed of the Future World
Recently someone, claiming to be a Hindu priest despite looking European, informed me vaguely that Westerners misunderstand the Sanatana Dharma. Since my understanding is heavily colored by the writings of Rene Guenon, we shall rely on his essay on that topic included in the collection Studies in Hinduism. We shall … Continue reading